Friday, July 20, 2012

The UGA Cedar City Conference

Cedar City's first ever Family History Conference will be held Aug.18,
2012 at the Hunter Conference Center on the Southern Utah University
campus. It will be a one day event with sessions on local history
presented by people in the know. We will have presentations on Historic
Trails of Southern Utah, the Frontier Homestead State Park, and the
First Settlers of Cedar City. There will also be classes on how to do
foreign research including Scandinavian, Irish, and English research.

Presenters are coming to teach about how to write our family
histories, teach about DNA genealogical research, and reading Early
American Handwriting. There will also be sessions that are just for fun
including story telling and music from the past. The day will begin at
8;30 A.M. with keynote speakers Dixie and Anne Leavitt and the the day
will end at 4:30 following a closing address from Harold Grant Shirley.
Come and spend a special day with us on one of Utah's beautiful college
campuses. Registration is online at the Utah Genealogical Association
website found at http://www.ugagenealogy.org.

Family ChartMasters will be there. Be sure to stop and say "Hi." And while you are at it, Cedar City is the home of Utah's Shakespearean Festival. Stay an extra day to take in a world class play while you are there. You'll be glad you did.